(ANSA) Milan, February 20 - Patrizia 'Black Widow' Reggiani on
Monday ended a three-year parole at the end of her sentence for
ordering the murder of her husband Maurizio Gucci after a Milan
judge upheld a prosecutor's request.
She has thus become a free woman again.
Reggiani, 68, "has paid her debt in full", her lawyers said.
Asked if she still maintained her innocence, Reggiani told
reporters last week, Yes, I believe so...I trusted the wrong
people".
In October Reggiani was adjudged to have served out 16 of her
26-year prison term for ordering the murder by a hitman of her
fashion-heir husband Gucci, and a custody review tribunal said
she should serve the remainder of a three-year parole by
continuing to work in a high-end jewellery shop and with the
Caritas Catholic charity organisation in Milan.
Reggiani was released in September 2013 pending the community
service order after spending 16 years in prison thanks to a
reduction for good behaviour.
The Black Widow left jail on September 16, 2013 for work
parole having refused early release after completing half her
sentence two years previously, saying she wouldn't know how to
work as she had never done so.
Maurizio Gucci was shot dead in front of his office in
March 1995.
Reggiani, soon dubbed The Black Widow because of her
heavily laced garb at his funeral and subsequent public
appearances, was convicted of ordering the killing and jailed in
Milan's San Vittore prison in 1997.
When she became eligible for day release if she accepted a
job in October 2011, she declined the offer.
"I have never worked in my life, and I'm not about to start
now" Reggiani told Milan judges.
When Reggiani was arrested in January 1997 she was living
in the upscale Swiss ski resort St. Moritz and enjoying a life
of luxury as the wife of the last Gucci to head the luxury goods
firm bearing his name.
Maurizio Gucci sold his holding for $170 million to a
Bahrain-based investment company in 1993.
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